cheese food

Velveeta's product category

Cheese food is a processed product containing cheese along with other dairy ingredients, emulsifiers, and additives.

It doesn't qualify as actual cheese under food regulations, hence the modified label.

The term appears on products like pasteurized process cheese food or American cheese food, typically found in individually wrapped slices or spreadable forms.

Related

mozzarella · cheese platter · Swiss cheese · processed cheese · whey · Velveeta · blue cheese · casein · paneer · halloumi · food coloring · artificial flavoring · preservatives · American cheese · nacho cheese · emulsifier · feta · queso

Categories
Opposites
authenticity/processing

cheese foodartisanal cheese

Handmade dairy in small batches

raw milk cheese · aged cheese · imported cheese

quality/prestige

cheese foodParmigiano-Reggiano

Protected Italian hard cheese

imported cheese · Stilton

ingredients/purity

cheese foodwhole food

Unrefined, unprocessed edibles

Family

cheesy, cheesier, cheesiest, cheesiness, cheeseburger, cheesecake, cheesecloth

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G